i need good pictures of hugelkultur beds for an article i'm writing

The article got published today! http://www.fromscratchmag.com/

It's on page 97. Your guys' pictures look GREAT but unfortunately he didn't put the captions on the photos that I asked for. I put everyone's names under each picture but he didn't put that in the article. I know that they release each magazine as this ezine thing and then they release each individual article as a blog post, so I will ask him to put the names in that and hopefully he will.

They also left out the last big paragraph of my piece. I guess it isn't super important to the building aspects, but it was the inspirational bit! Hahah

So here is the last paragraph that got left out:


"So as you can see there can be a lot of variation with these and still, they will be successful. When it comes down to it, yes, they are much more work to set up than just your regular square flat garden bed. But the amount of work it eliminates over the years 1000% makes up for it. Not only for yourself, but for the entire world. Think of how much water we could save if each of us traded our water-hogging flat beds for one of these. Think of how much time and energy we could save with no tilling, and no back-breaking planting and harvesting! Oh did I mention less water makes all of your food taste way better? There really are just no reasons not to jump on the hugelkultur train so get to building one (or 5) right now so you can plant in the spring! "

Cool. That's a neat magazine. Thanks Cassie.

Great Article Cassie! Very well written and the submitted pictures are great too! I had not hear of these until a week ago on Permies. It is the first thing I'm going to do when we purchase the land for our eco-village in Texas. The property already has large piles of dead and dry oak trees really for the task.

Tom Taber wrote:Great Article Cassie! Very well written and the submitted pictures are great too! I had not hear of these until a week ago on Permies. It is the first thing I'm going to do when we purchase the land for our eco-village in Texas. The property already has large piles of dead and dry oak trees really for the task.

Hey thanks Tim! that sounds like a wise idea to get some hugelkultur beds built first thing! take some pictures.

Well done Cassie. Congrats!

Thank you so much! I seriously love writing about cool things!

Here's the construction of my beds (3)

1. The carpet is an old "outdoor carpet" cut in two to keep weeds down.
2. The first bed was mainly sticks, soil, compost and whatnot... it is now 2 seasons old, and much flatter.
3. the second hugel I built up to around 5 feet, and still needs to be covered.
4. the third hugel is whatever sticks and things, and is also in process. I wanted them to age differently in case there is a sudden decline, I can fix them one at a time.

5. weed trees give me trouble.. but that's mainly because I had a busy work year, which made keeping an eye a bit more difficult.

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Hugelkulturs!!! I just finished these up this fall. I planted them with whatever I could find to try to get some roots in there so all my hard work doesn't landslide over the winter! I also transplanted 4 Sea Buckthorn, it will be their permanent residence. These 2 beds have a path between them as they are the center of my urban garden. They are going to be flanked on either side by a native wildflower meadow. I have plans for several more Hugelkulturs next year.

Here are two hugelkultur beds that we built. The one in the front we built this summer. The other we built the summer before. The new one is a flat terrace with 2 layers of logs, & layers of dirt, aged cow manure & wood chips. It is prepared for next spring planting. We need to raise the ground as it is too low, and the clay soil has zero topsoil. We have a lot of fallen logs that we plant to continue to create terraced hugelkultur beds along the front of our property. There is a small pocket pond above the second hugelkultur bed.

Some random pics and an unfinished thread.. Which reminds me, I need to update this again some rainy day..

https://permies.com/t/45532/hugelkultur/Approx-ft-hugel-based-beds

In response to Cassie's email request for more photos, I'll give this a try.

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